From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design

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Saving to DXF or DWG

Saving to DXF or DWG - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design

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Saving to DXF or DWG

When sending out parts for laser cutting, water jet cutting, flame cutting, plasma cutting, or routing cutting. We need to create a DXF or DWG file. There are many options to choose from. So let's go over them. From the drawing view, you can see that I've got this part we looked at in the previous move. And our sheet 2 has a one to one flat pattern ready to save out as a DXF or DWG. To save this out, it's pretty easy. Just go up here to File > Save As. And choose from the drop down, DXF or DWG. If you click on DWG, and click on the options tools. I can see that I've got quite a few different options I can choose from here. I can choose the version I'm saving a file out to all the way back to r12 Autocad to r2210. When you're happy with your options you have, go ahead and click on OK and click on Save. Now you've got a DWG or JIG file on the file system. Let's jump over and take a look at em. So here's the file I just saved. It's 90 KB. And I also have some examples of some other files…

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